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Dispersive Analysis of $B\to K^{(*)}$ and $B_s\to \phi$ Form Factors

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-01-08 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We perform the first simultaneous dispersive analysis of the BKB\to K, BKB\to K^*, and BsϕB_s\to \phi form factors. By means of an improved parametrization, we take into account the form factors' below-threshold branch cuts arising from on-shell Bˉsπ0\bar{B}_s \pi^0 and Bˉsπ0π0\bar{B}_s \pi^0 \pi^0 states, which so far have been ignored in the literature. In this way, we eliminate a source of hard-to-quantify systematic uncertainties. We provide machine-readable files to obtain the full set of the BˉKˉ()\bar{B}\to \bar{K}^{(*)} and Bˉsϕ\bar{B}_s\to \phi form factors in and beyond the entire semileptonic phase space.

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@article{arxiv.2305.06301,
  title  = {Dispersive Analysis of $B\to K^{(*)}$ and $B_s\to \phi$ Form Factors},
  author = {Nico Gubernari and Méril Reboud and Danny van Dyk and Javier Virto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06301},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v4: We have corrected the application of the unitarity bounds, which were ill-defined in the previous versions. Ancillary material at https://zenodo.org/record/13981091